the number of the city will be eight times its present number,
5,359,000. And when (besides the said number) there will be
4,466,000 to perform the tillage, pasturage, and other rural works
necessary to be done without the said city, as by the following
table, viz.:-


A.D. Burials People in People in
London England
1565 2,568 77,040 5,526,929
As in the } 1605 5,135
former table } 1642 11,883
} 1682 22,331 669,930 7,369,230
1722 44,662
1762 89,324
1802 178,648 5,359,440 9,825,650
1842 357,296 10,718,889 10,917,389


Now, when the people of London shall come to be so near the people
of all England, then it follows that the growth of London must stop
before the said year 1842, as aforesaid, and must be at its greatest
height A.D. 1800, when it will be eight times more than now, with
above 4,000,000 for the service of the country and ports, as
aforesaid.

Of the aforementioned vast difference between 10 years and 1,200
years for doubling the people, we make this use, viz.:- To justify
the Scriptures and all other good histories concerning the number of
the people in ancient time. For supposing the eight persons who